The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-09-03
KITE NEWS.

a iFsR Orleans have termed pool
and have pnt ~ ths price Of ice u
thai caq from 81 q 81 per hundred
Ne lbeFia Sgap Howl Gotten
has been coming ii qaite freely, tue
past week. Good reportsare also com
Ing IS from ali parts Of our parish.
Ihibaaanx Is to have broom fac
tory INA AIr John Tomkias, promi-
ncnt poang bnsinsss man 81 the piane,
IS tie ono that proposes % furnish
TIE long Esli want
Jile 1ittic towD Of Washington, 81.
Landrg parrish for The week ending
Aag "a, shipped SO bales of Gotten.
go sacks 81 Tice, besides sundry lots
Of chickens, eggs, wool, etc.
Tie adssrtissr says the corn and
cotton yield for this gear in Lafayette
parish Is going 10 beat the record,
ihe acreage IL both Is larger ana the
yioid per acre ~ greater than any year
since isae Tahi''
Rassan Caligraph Quite num-
Der Of the farmers Of our parish are
now engaged IL shaking sorghum
syrup The syrup il not as good u
the article manufactured from the gen
nine ribbon cane, bat it is an excellent
snbstitate.
Morgan City Repiew The aAteha-
falsYa and Plaqamine Improvement
Association" IL Morgan City, has
elected Judge B. +. Winchester a del
egatc from that body to attend Tie
Western Waterways Convention st
Memphis on October 20 and 81.
Arcadia AdgaBce Instead of being
aaybody to beat MeEnery 9e-
Soto parish It il anybody but Ni6h-
oils. DeSoto says her toes were onee
mashed BY Gen. Nichols, and The
people Of that parish know how IL
hurt
Thibalanx Ssafiael Gen. Nichols
has begun stamping The State ii BIZ
own behalf. Rather a strange step t.
take for man who Is not seeking Che
Office. Now is the time for the Re
form press 10 raise howl againsi
agricultural, leveo and edncationa
conventions.
Rayne Signal Five families JUS
from The drouth.slricken portion oil
Texas have jastarrized in our parish
Ia aaarah al water and good land and
We hope 10 be able 10 locate them
Tho following are the names Of tht
gentlemen Of the party: . a., ID. w.
q, ]. ~ and ] IS Bithek, Of Burnett,
Co, and ]. johnson, Of Brown Co.
st. Mary Herald The cane eFoF
Oh Cypremort is 30 large that it il
doubtfal whether ltsean all be saved
with The present sugar houses. The
planters in that section are sendeaYor-
ing 10 make arrangements to have
switches built from the main line Of
MoFgan's Railroad, in order TO trans,
port their cane to some larger mill
and refinery.
Louisiana Journal Many thou
sands OF dollars are drawn from this
parish annually by stock drovers
This money had better be kept a
home. Horses and mules can be raiset
IN Claiborne parish as well as in Ken
tueky and Missouri. This eountr,
can be made more self-susiaining thai
il has been, aud itwill be much Hnor
prosperous than it has been when /
is made as far as possible rseli-sustain
ing.
Baton Rouge CapitoiiaIl-ddVooate
We understand that several parties i
The parish are putting some 6Be eatl
and hor6es in order for the propose
fair If The people of our parish wonl
giYethe matter general interest We fet
certain that not only a large aud yer
ereditable exhibit Of live stock woul
Be made, but that farm products, i
yentions and many ether thingswoul
also bc shown. II Il earnestly hope
that the efforts Of tlB Farmers ca
10 get up this fair viii meet with
hearty rsFponse from farmers, planter
AFRICANS and in fact everybody Ii 4
parish.
DeSrto Democfat "Why der
you fight MeEnery a little ifyon sfay
a third manY The above question
frequently propopnded to Us, and
answer thereto, we simply say .th
when We load our old bluuder-bul
and sight il down the McEuery In
We see that the Objectionable s'Big 4
are not to be seen, but that the line
composed almost entirely of sws
back Democrats, prominent aIno
whom IL r. w. Satherlin, bearing /
bannerpf Attorney General, SO we d
orally turn il around and fire doy
the Nichols lane, in hope Of woundil
amngWumpor Democratic bolter.
Naiehiioches Rspieg "A few da
ago Dan Simon, colored man wi
lives on Spanish Lake, was ont hon
ing cattle, mounted on a trusty anil
Whilc passing through an old &c
where q house once stood, the mu
became frightened and started on
dead Inn through thieket Of bria
and underground The mule was
foil Of pure eussedness and the negI
50 oaenpied to keep bis scat, tn
Behaer saw Al old well until bol
vert bead long iato ii. Tie well VA
about 30 feet deep and the Journey |
the bottom off it was rapid and f1ll Z
thrilling incidents to both and Of Fat
result 70 The mule, The neck Of whie
was broken The negro was nnhurt b